Apple A15 Bionic vs Apple A16 Bionic

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Apple A15 Bionic Apple A16 Bionic

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 3230MHz Apple A15 Bionic vs. 6 cores 3460MHz Apple A16 Bionic . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple A15 Bionic Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Apple A16 Bionic Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.7894 TFLOPS vs 1.7126 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3460MHz vs 3230MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Released 1 years late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple A15 Bionic

1290037

Apple A16 Bionic +11%

1441069

FP32 (float)

Apple A15 Bionic

1712

Apple A16 Bionic +4%

1789

Apple A15 Bionic

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Apple A16 Bionic

CPU

2x 3.23 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.02 GHz – Blizzard

Architecture

2x 3.46 GHz – Everest
4x 2.02 GHz – Sawtooth

3230 MHz

Frequency

3460 MHz

6

Cores

6

12 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

5 nm

Process

4 nm

15

Transistor count

16

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple A15 GPU

GPU name

Apple A16 GPU

1338 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

5

Execution units

5

128

Shading units

128

6

Max size

6

1.7126 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.7894 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Neural Engine

NPU

Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural Engine

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2796 x 1290

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Sep 2021

Announced

Sep 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1W07

Model number

APL1W10

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